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It feels bad that this happened to one of the companies with a very good engineering culture. The stuff they have put out in the open either on GitHub or throug

It feels bad that this happened to one of the companies with a very good engineering culture. The stuff they have put out in the open either on GitHub or through their blogs is a testament to that. I think any company will be lucky to have these folks.

xwdv 6y ago
Good engineering culture, bad company, user hostile.
- Apocryphon 6y ago
  Dubious product quality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810407
- baby 6y ago
  Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I love travelling with Airbnb but they are lying to users with displayed prices. There are plugins to see the real prices btw.
tempsy 6y ago
Good engineering culture...? Airbnb is a simple CRUD app...it’s hardly a shining example of hard deeply technical engineering problems that are fun and interesting to work on.
- alfalfasprout 6y ago
  There's a great deal of recommendations, fraud detection, global payment complexity, etc. behind the CRUD app.
  - tempsy 6y ago
    All solved problems. Or at the very least not problems other companies don’t face as well.
    - hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
      AirBnB was really a leader in these types of consumer-to-consumer payments. While AirBnB has also changed their strategy WRT their mobile apps, I think it's certainly commendable how they were leading with the technical approaches they took.
- taway555 6y ago
  For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
- filoleg 6y ago
  If you think they don't have a good engineering culture, you should check out their open-sourced tools[0]. I had an opportunity to work with some of their open-sourced tools (Airflow was one of them) about 5 years ago at my old workplace, and the quality of their product and documentation is nothing but superb. At my current workplace, I use Enzyme all the time when dealing with unit tests, and it seems to be pretty much the industry standard for React UI unit-testing. 0. https://airbnb.io/projects/ https://airbnb.io/projects/
- JSavageOne 6y ago
  Facebook is also a CRUD app. What's your point?

xwdv 6y ago

Good engineering culture, bad company, user hostile.

Apocryphon 6y ago
Dubious product quality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810407
baby 6y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I love travelling with Airbnb but they are lying to users with displayed prices. There are plugins to see the real prices btw.

tempsy 6y ago

Good engineering culture...? Airbnb is a simple CRUD app...it’s hardly a shining example of hard deeply technical engineering problems that are fun and interesting to work on.

alfalfasprout 6y ago
There's a great deal of recommendations, fraud detection, global payment complexity, etc. behind the CRUD app.
- tempsy 6y ago
  All solved problems. Or at the very least not problems other companies don’t face as well.
  - hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
    AirBnB was really a leader in these types of consumer-to-consumer payments. While AirBnB has also changed their strategy WRT their mobile apps, I think it's certainly commendable how they were leading with the technical approaches they took.
taway555 6y ago
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
filoleg 6y ago
If you think they don't have a good engineering culture, you should check out their open-sourced tools[0]. I had an opportunity to work with some of their open-sourced tools (Airflow was one of them) about 5 years ago at my old workplace, and the quality of their product and documentation is nothing but superb. At my current workplace, I use Enzyme all the time when dealing with unit tests, and it seems to be pretty much the industry standard for React UI unit-testing. 0. https://airbnb.io/projects/ https://airbnb.io/projects/
JSavageOne 6y ago
Facebook is also a CRUD app. What's your point?